Obstacles—Anything or Anyone That Stands in the Way of a Goal
As stated in an earlier chapter, obstacles are perceived as opportunities in the mind of an entrepreneur. They are opportunities to create new ways of doing things and sometimes force reinvention for the better. Although they can threaten the way your business is going, they do not have the power to completely stop the business unless you allow them. Even if you were somehow forced to shut down operations, it then creates an opportunity to start a whole new enterprise. An entrepreneur is like a river that flows around a huge boulder in its path. It just flows right around it. Like a boulder has no real power over the river, an obstacle has no power over ...
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